Highlandville, MO 65669 Frost Dates
Highlandville, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Highlandville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Highlandville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Highlandville's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Highlandville against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Highlandville's last and first frost, putting it 21,646 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 793 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65669's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Highlandville can differ from the 65669 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Highlandville's frost date answer different questions.